James Bloodworth

James Bloodworth is a journalist and author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2019.

@J_Bloodworth

James Bloodworth is a journalist and author of Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2019.

Can Labour be saved from the hard Left?

James Bloodworth

04 Jan 2021

China’s useful idiots

James Bloodworth

11 Dec 2020

Just how toxic is the masculine mystique?

James Bloodworth

01 Dec 2020

Why the poor eat poorly

James Bloodworth

11 Nov 2020

Do men really hate women?

James Bloodworth

15 Oct 2020

Are graduates doomed?

James Bloodworth

29 Sep 2020

Can our seaside survive the winter?

James Bloodworth

07 Sep 2020

Our reductive refugee debate

James Bloodworth

20 Aug 2020

Why the Government’s diet won’t work

James Bloodworth

29 Jul 2020

Who paved the way for the populists?

James Bloodworth

24 Jul 2020

The awkward truth about Srebrenica

James Bloodworth

10 Jul 2020

The emptiness of the Intellectual Dark Web

James Bloodworth

01 Jul 2020

The Tories’ shameful record on the homeless

James Bloodworth

24 Jun 2020

Bristol’s woke hypocrisy

James Bloodworth

11 Jun 2020

The Covid-19 class war

James Bloodworth

15 May 2020

Pity the out-of-work influencers

James Bloodworth

29 Apr 2020

Bernie’s failure is a lesson for the Left

James Bloodworth

17 Apr 2020

Covid-19: do the shires even care?

James Bloodworth

02 Apr 2020

The ruthlessness of the sexual marketplace

James Bloodworth

26 Mar 2020

Is Las Vegas ready for socialism?

James Bloodworth

21 Feb 2020

Why Incels are the losers in the age of Tinder

James Bloodworth

13 Feb 2020

Today’s liberals dream of a workerless paradise

James Bloodworth

03 Feb 2020

Why does Corbyn’s party hate Britain?

James Bloodworth

16 Jan 2020

Why did a rundown mining town become a safe Tory seat?

James Bloodworth

20 Dec 2019

In 2010, David Cameron first fooled the country

James Bloodworth

17 Dec 2019

Why I’m going to spoil my ballot

James Bloodworth

04 Dec 2019

How pessimism is poisoning our politics

James Bloodworth

25 Nov 2019

Inside the mind of the Jordan Peterson fanboy

James Bloodworth

11 Nov 2019

How the Left lost all purpose

James Bloodworth

30 Oct 2019

Cuba killed my communism

James Bloodworth

18 Oct 2019

The exploited underclass is revolting

James Bloodworth

20 Sep 2019

The war against objectivity

James Bloodworth

14 Aug 2019

How the Left lost Wales

James Bloodworth

01 Aug 2019

Red alert: the childish fad for socialism

James Bloodworth

09 Jul 2019

Sadiq Khan, the knife-crime fall guy

James Bloodworth

02 Jul 2019

Did Chernobyl kill communism?

James Bloodworth

11 Jun 2019

The far-Right’s appeal to resentful Germans

James Bloodworth

29 May 2019

Understanding alt-Right obsessions

James Bloodworth

23 May 2019

Labour’s latest target

James Bloodworth

30 Apr 2019

Sun, sea, sand – and shooting up

James Bloodworth

10 Apr 2019

Does class still count?

James Bloodworth

29 Mar 2019

The dark side of ‘socialism’

James Bloodworth

21 Mar 2019

Where would the Left be without Brexit?

James Bloodworth

18 Mar 2019

Bigotry dressed as victimhood

James Bloodworth

08 Mar 2019

The Left’s long history of antisemitism

James Bloodworth

04 Mar 2019

Ideologues miss Orwell’s greatest lesson

James Bloodworth

21 Feb 2019

What snapped in Spain?

James Bloodworth

15 Feb 2019

Why is the hard-Left so conservative?

James Bloodworth

08 Feb 2019

Sadiq Khan is wrong about rent controls

James Bloodworth

31 Jan 2019

What have think tanks got to hide?

James Bloodworth

22 Jan 2019

Corbyn’s intolerant populism

James Bloodworth

10 Jan 2019

Why liberal-Left paternalism led to Brexit

James Bloodworth

02 Jan 2019

Left behind – life beyond the London bubble

James Bloodworth

24 Dec 2018

The dark side of rural England

James Bloodworth

13 Dec 2018

Our shameful social care crisis

James Bloodworth

03 Dec 2018

How the alt-Right got stuck in The Matrix

James Bloodworth

22 Nov 2018

Britain’s homelessness shame

James Bloodworth

13 Nov 2018

Today’s voguish communists should remember Budapest

James Bloodworth

01 Nov 2018

Could Spain’s Pedro Sánchez save Europe’s centre-Left?

James Bloodworth

22 Oct 2018

Liberal individualism is killing the planet

James Bloodworth

12 Oct 2018

How Corbyn captured the middle class

James Bloodworth

28 Sep 2018

Bezos and his offensive, self-serving philanthropy

James Bloodworth

21 Sep 2018

Camus’ rejection of tyranny is worth remembering today

James Bloodworth

18 Sep 2018

‘Open’ London is built on exploited labour

James Bloodworth

06 Sep 2018

Europe 2025: the beginning of the end

James Bloodworth

22 Aug 2018

Left behind – life beyond the London bubble

James Bloodworth

14 Aug 2018

The closed world of the ‘enlightened’ middle class

James Bloodworth

31 Jul 2018

All hail the AI dictatorship

James Bloodworth

24 Jul 2018

Is capitalism killing cricket?

James Bloodworth

20 Jul 2018

Why we can’t ignore the working-class identity crisis

James Bloodworth

09 Jul 2018

Activist journalism is feeding us fake news

James Bloodworth

28 Jun 2018

Six types of ‘useful idiot’

James Bloodworth

13 Jun 2018

How the Left failed flyover Spain

James Bloodworth

01 Jun 2018

How Latin America’s Pink Tide turned

James Bloodworth

18 May 2018

Amazon: the new Victorian workhouse

James Bloodworth

04 May 2018

The grim reality of renting in Britain

James Bloodworth

17 Apr 2018

Cheap consumer goods come with a high human price tag

James Bloodworth

22 Mar 2018

Unlike Europe’s centre-left, Corbyn has popularity – but does he have solutions?

James Bloodworth

12 Mar 2018

What have Corbyn and Trump got in common? Anything? And a couple of other big questions (and answers) about two party political revolutions

James Bloodworth

28 Jan 2018

Podemos walks a tightrope on Catalonia

James Bloodworth

20 Nov 2017

Media elites underestimated protest movements. And they underestimated Spain’s Podemos, too.

James Bloodworth

17 Nov 2017

Mainland Europe’s most important radical party doesn’t just seek seats – but ‘hegemonia’ too

James Bloodworth

16 Nov 2017

London takes a stand against Uber and its “extreme capitalism”

James Bloodworth

25 Sep 2017

Here’s what to read and watch if you want to understand the ‘new left’

James Bloodworth

23 Sep 2017